We went to "Going in Style" at the movie theater this evening. Good movies are few and far between these days; thismovie was really good!! Morgan Freeman; Michael Caine; Alan Arkin with a little Ann-Margaret thrown in.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

Yes, I went with my sister-in-law. It was good.Are you watching "The Son" on AMC? Wow, it's really good. Glad to have a different series to watch; and now Heartland Season 10is on UPtv here in the US. That's my favorite. Interesting watching some of the actors age; Jack (Grandpa) doesn't seem to age much and he's so good in this series, among all those women. I miss Mallory, but she may return. I hope so. She was a pistol.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

It's been a very long time since we went to a movie. Just not enough that look to be good ones.

However, a few years ago the town of Philip, SD celebrated their centennial with a wagon train honoring the town namesake, Scotty Philip. Scotty had a ranch near what became the town, and he moved down the Bad River to new location near the town of Ft. Pierre. A young film maker from Denver, with local roots, Justin Koehler, was hired to film it. He made an interesting movie, on the life of that very interesting man who is credited with saving the buffalo from extinction. It was titled "The Buffalo King". Our family participated in the wagon train, so we 'had to' see the movie. It was very good, and many people not so involved as we were felt the same way.

One thing led to another, and with Ft. Pierre also being the home of nine time champion Saddle Bronc rider, Casey Tibbs, film maker Justin became interested in the possibility of making a film on the life of Casey Tibbs.

This past Wednesday night, the film Floating Horses: The Life of Casey Tibbs, directed by Justin Koehler was shown at the Black Hills Film Festival in Rapid City. In the movie, Justin did justice to the fantastic rodeo career of Casey Tibbs, but he broadened the focus to get into the mind of the man, and also to show Casey as an actor, and stuntman, with interviews and video of many friends of Casey, put together making it seem almost as if it was a 'live' movie from his life. A life lived pretty large and wild at times. I being quite young when Casey Tibbs was in his heyday, maybe seeing him actually ride a time or two, but hearing many of the stories of him, belive this movie is very well done. We will be glad to see it again. It is scheduled for more film festivals, and we don't know when it will come out in theaters, or how it will be distributed, but if anyone gets a chance to see it and you like rodeo, there is a little of that in it, but more of his life, and it is all interesting. We look forward to seeing it again.

Faster horses wrote:Yes, I went with my sister-in-law. It was good.Are you watching "The Son" on AMC? Wow, it's really good. Glad to have a different series to watch; and now Heartland Season 10is on UPtv here in the US. That's my favorite. Interesting watching some of the actors age; Jack (Grandpa) doesn't seem to age much and he's so good in this series, among all those women. I miss Mallory, but she may return. I hope so. She was a pistol.

The home town in A dog's purpose was Virden Manitoba where my daughter lives. Chicago was actully Winnipeg, I saw parts of Brandon and the farm house was near Neepawa Manitoba. So we had to see it.

mrj wrote:It's been a very long time since we went to a movie. Just not enough that look to be good ones.

However, a few years ago the town of Philip, SD celebrated their centennial with a wagon train honoring the town namesake, Scotty Philip. Scotty had a ranch near what became the town, and he moved down the Bad River to new location near the town of Ft. Pierre. A young film maker from Denver, with local roots, Justin Koehler, was hired to film it. He made an interesting movie, on the life of that very interesting man who is credited with saving the buffalo from extinction. It was titled "The Buffalo King". Our family participated in the wagon train, so we 'had to' see the movie. It was very good, and many people not so involved as we were felt the same way.

One thing led to another, and with Ft. Pierre also being the home of nine time champion Saddle Bronc rider, Casey Tibbs, film maker Justin became interested in the possibility of making a film on the life of Casey Tibbs.

This past Wednesday night, the film Floating Horses: The Life of Casey Tibbs, directed by Justin Koehler was shown at the Black Hills Film Festival in Rapid City. In the movie, Justin did justice to the fantastic rodeo career of Casey Tibbs, but he broadened the focus to get into the mind of the man, and also to show Casey as an actor, and stuntman, with interviews and video of many friends of Casey, put together making it seem almost as if it was a 'live' movie from his life. A life lived pretty large and wild at times. I being quite young when Casey Tibbs was in his heyday, maybe seeing him actually ride a time or two, but hearing many of the stories of him, belive this movie is very well done. We will be glad to see it again. It is scheduled for more film festivals, and we don't know when it will come out in theaters, or how it will be distributed, but if anyone gets a chance to see it and you like rodeo, there is a little of that in it, but more of his life, and it is all interesting. We look forward to seeing it again.

mrj

Thanks for the review, mrj. I shall definitely watch for it. I wrote down "The Buffalo King" and will look for that. You are correct; good movies are few and far between. The previews before the movie were terrible. There wasn't one I would go see--and the sound effects were deafening in all of them!! I choose movie-going very carefully. I worked at the movie theatre when I was in high school and they are fascinating to me, but for 22 years we lived 80 miles from the nearest theatre so didn't go very often. I remember we made the drive to see "All the Pretty Horses" and I hated that movie. Mr. FH watches it on tv from time to time and as I pass by, it doesn't seem so bad now, but at the time, I thought that 160 mile round-trip was a waste of time! And I have no respect for Matt Damon, now more so than then.

My dad was a Casey Tibbs fan for life. Remember Txtibbs that used to post here? He is a relative of Casey Tibbs (and a real jokester--wish he was still posting.)

BMR--those kind of 'insides' are interesting and yes, you HAD to go. Wish I had known what you posted before I went. Kind of like "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" was filmed in Buffalo, Wy and there were a lot of people we knew that appeared in that movie. It wasn't all that good, though.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

I used to buy bulls from Dale Fellman at Jordan MT. Mrs Fellman gave me some Fellman Ace Hardware Tee shirts for the kids.Tiffany my oldest wasn't that impressed with it until I took them down on a vacation and Dale showed them the clip from Jurassic Park where the actor was wearing one of their shirts.

Don't know if it's what you folks like but wife and I watched one called "UNBRANDED" about a small group of college graduates and training wild mustangs and then making the ride from the Mexican border to the Canadian border. Pretty entertaining.

Unbranded follows four men and sixteen mustangs on an epic 3,000-mile journey from Mexico to Canada through the American West to inspire adoptions for the 50,000 wild horses and burros in government captivity.

Nothing but a beggar trying to show other beggars where I found bread.